If I Am Very Still / June 9, 2025

June 9, 2025

If I Am Very Still

Thrumming With Energy

waiting for clearance
to land, poems circling in
a holding pattern

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incipient bookmarks

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Notes about poem and art:
• I enjoy working with the haiku form, having something I wish to say and 17 syllables at my disposal with which to say it; three lines—of 5 syllables, then 7, then 5.
• The turning point with my recent art-in-progress took place when I went to my paper trimmer to cut from the whole a handful of wanna-be bookmarks. Four of them are arranged here, glued to backing to make them sturdy enough for eventual use.
• The stillness to which I refer in this post’s title is the stillness needed to find my way to truth in all endeavors.

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   carol lee

   June 9, 2025 at 7:33 am

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   Love the poem! So much potential ! Lucky books!

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      Dotty Seiter

      June 9, 2025 at 9:21 am

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      Carol, thanks for your upbeat comments! I trust you appreciated the simplicity and straightforwardness of this little haiku—you interpreted it beautifully: potential!

      I’m smiling at your saying “lucky books” : )

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   Joyful Puttering

   June 9, 2025 at 8:20 am

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   I can feel the energy in your haiku. And your bookmarks are earthy and yummy. Here’s to our search for truth!

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   Dotty Seiter

   June 9, 2025 at 9:23 am

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   Oooo, love that you can feel the energy in my haiku. Thanks for the “earthy and yummy” feedback; those incipient bookmarks will be searching for their truth in upcoming days.

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   lolajovan

   June 9, 2025 at 12:39 pm

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   your words and art hit me right in the sweet spot! And conjure this response:

   paintings in the mist

   rising, forming heavy clouds

   fall with abandon

   xoxoxxoox

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      Dotty Seiter

      June 9, 2025 at 12:51 pm

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      Lola! Wow! I am slack-jawed and honored by your response!

      Please know that my subsequent post, already circling the airport and scheduled to be cleared for landing on Wednesday, so to speak was written before your comment above.

      : )

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   roseanne333

   June 10, 2025 at 3:14 pm

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   Dotty ~ I am looking forward to your thoughts and poems circling in for landing. I am really liking the colors of your bookmarks. Are they matched up with books as yet?

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      Dotty Seiter

      June 10, 2025 at 3:27 pm

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      Roseanne, I am suddenly surrounded by with poems circling in a holding pattern hoping I will clear them for landing and transcription! This has never before been the case for me!

      I like the color palette for these not-quite-yet-bookmarks also. In answer to your question: moving in that direction (you know me well!).

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   Sheila Marie Delgado

   June 10, 2025 at 7:34 pm

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   Love! :o)

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      Dotty Seiter

      June 10, 2025 at 8:48 pm

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      Thanks , Sheila!

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   Simone

   June 11, 2025 at 8:18 am

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   Love the title of the poem. It’s a gift if one can become that still, so clearance can come through.

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      Dotty Seiter

      June 11, 2025 at 9:53 am

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      SUCH a gift, that stillness, always there even when I get caught up in noise and distraction. I am so grateful when I can reconnect.

 

Movement / June 6, 2025

June 6, 2025

Movement

Pep in My Step

my little black stone of a heart?
the one lodged dark in my chest
a few days back?

a pebble in my shoe,
so to speak,
signifying through pain
the chafing of
thinking brain
against
knowing heart

i shook the pebble out—
minuscule, black, heart-shaped!—
retied my shoe
began walking again
straight and true

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work in progress

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Notes about poem and art: “Pep” is a postscript to prayer and opening. The art in progress above is at a turning point. Everything always in movement, shifting, changing.

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   carol lee

   June 6, 2025 at 4:46 am

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   Glad you moved on with the painting and removed that pebble from you shoe/heart!

   Lots going on here. A dialog between yellows, darks, fine line scribbles. Who in the end will take the lead?

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      Dotty Seiter

      June 6, 2025 at 5:20 am

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      oh! terrific question for the artist (yours truly) to ask, i.e. who in the end will take the lead (which was the question with the little black stone of a heart situation as well). onward! movement!

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   roseanne333

   June 7, 2025 at 10:25 am

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   There are such evocative visuals in this poem, Dotty. I read and reread it several (4?, 5?, more) times and found something each time. “the chafing of thinking brain against knowing heart” – my favorite. I can feel that one in my bones. I love the meandering asemia – you knew I would. 

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      Dotty Seiter

      June 7, 2025 at 10:53 am

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      Roseanne! Such a gift to get your feedback here, to have you reflect back that you found such evocative visuals, discovering something each time you reread “Pep in My Step.” I love that “the chafing of thinking brain against knowing heart” resonated for you! And, of course, it pleases me to know my meandering asemia lights you up : )

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   lolajovan

   June 7, 2025 at 5:54 pm

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   “the chafing of the thinking brain against knowing heart” oh oh OH! And this beautiful piece in progress which reminds me of lace and peering out from behind curtains made of it. And removing the pebble in one’s shoe. You amaze me. xo

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      Dotty Seiter

      June 7, 2025 at 8:15 pm

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      Lola! Thank goodness for those pebbles in the shoe, that chafing of thinking brain against knowing heart—signifiers that attention is required and chakras need realigning. And wowser! Thanks for directing my attention to the chance to peer our from behind those lace curtains!!

      I am humbled to amaze : )

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   Joyful Puttering

   June 9, 2025 at 8:26 am

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   I am so glad I scrolled back to this….I missed it a few days ago. It’s nice seeing the piece that became the bookmarks…and it’s heartwarming knowing your shoe is pebble free. Movement….shifting and change!

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      Dotty Seiter

      June 9, 2025 at 9:19 am

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      I also am glad you scrolled back, and, speaking of missing posts, I have several comings and goings on the horizon and may be in absentia from visiting/comment at your blog on those days; just wanted you to know in advance, and to know that all is well : )

      I’m also glad you know my shoe is pebble free (at least in the moment)!

      Always … movement, shifting, and change 

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   Joyful Puttering

   June 9, 2025 at 12:47 pm

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   Thanks for the heads up. I hope you have a good time with your comings and goings.

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   Simone

   June 11, 2025 at 8:17 am

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   I really LOVE your poetry! So much energy!

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      Dotty Seiter

      June 11, 2025 at 9:51 am

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      Simone, YAY! As I’ve mentioned previously, your input and feedback and encouragement regarding my writing were key sparks that got me fired up to commit myself to opening up to playing with poetry as I’ve done. THANK YOU!